Italian gardens (1907) (14745819906)

Identifier: cu31924064158870 (find matches)
Title: Italian gardens
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Elgood, George Samuel, 1851-
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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tL.^iSiU^.Lj.^.yivi CASA DEL BALCONE PENSILE It would be outside the province of this book to attempt to trace thehistory of gardening from its beginnings. Homer, Solomon, and manyother writers of antiquity have left us more or less scant references tothe gardens of their day. All these references have a strong similarity ;Homers poetical description of the gardens of Alcinous would fit equallywell many a garden in the East even at the present day : ... withoutthe courtyard hard by the door is a great garden, of four plough-gates,and a hedge runs round on either side. And there grow tall treesblossoming, pear-trees and pomegranates, and apple-trees with brightfruit, and sweet figs, and olives in their bloom. . . . There too hath hea fruitful vineyard planted. . . . There, too, skirting the furthest line,are all manner of garden beds, planted trimly, that are perpetually fresh,and therein are two fountains of water, whereof one scatters his streamsall about the garden, and the other ru